The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the sound had parted thence, Still left an echo in the sense.
BEN JONSONThat old bald cheater, Time.
More Ben Jonson Quotes
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True gladness doth not always speak; joy, bred and born but in the tongue, is weak.
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Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need
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The burnt child dreads the fire.
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A thankful man owes a courtesy ever; the unthankful but when he needs it.
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Where it concerns himself, Who’s angry at a slander, makes it true.
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My thoughts and I were of another world.
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Books are faithful repositories, which may be awhile neglected or forgotten, but when they are opened again, will again impart their instruction.
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It is less dishonor to hear imperfectly than to speak imperfectly. The ears are excused; the understanding is not.
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A valiant man Ought not to undergo, or tempt a danger, But worthily, and by selected ways, He undertakes with reason, not by chance. His valor is the salt t’ his other virtues, They’re all unseason’d without it.
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Tis the common disease of all your musicians that they know no mean, to be entreated, either to begin or end.
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Fortune, thou hadst no deity, if men Had wisdom.
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If men will impartially, and not asquint, look toward the offices and function of a poet, they will easily conclude to themselves the impossibility of any man’s being a good poet without first being a good man.
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Let argument bear no unmusical sound.
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Success hath made me wanton.
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It strikes! one, two, Three, four, five, six. Enough, enough, dear watch, Thy pulse hath beat enough. Now sleep and rest; Would thou could’st make the time to do so too; I’ll wind thee up no more.
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